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In recent years, many healthy marriage and relationship education (HMRE) programs serving couples with low incomes have offered participants economic stability services in addition to traditional HMRE programming focused on relationship skills. To add to the research literature on the effects of this approach, the Strengthening Relationship Education and Marriage Services (STREAMS) evaluation included an impact study of Empowering Families, an HMRE program with integrated economic stability services for couples with low incomes raising children together.

Healthy marriage and relationship education (HMRE) programs provide high school students education on relationships through structured, classroom-based curricula. These programs fill a common gap in what students learn about relationships in school by teaching them about the social and emotional aspects of relationships, such as communicating effectively, managing conflict, and avoiding dating violence.

A primary goal of the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act of 2014 is to encourage states and territories to improve families’ access to child care and early education (CCEE). The purpose of this resource is to assist CCEE leaders in using maps to understand and improve CCEE access.

Explore a framework developed by OPRE that introduce five dimensions of evidence capacity among federal agencies: evidence culture, evidence infrastructure, engagement, human capital, and leadership.

This brief presents six considerations for practitioners who want to try using text message reminders to increase participation at the first session of a voluntary program and regular attendance thereafter.

A report for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on options and opportunities to address and mitigate the existing and potential risks, as well as promote benefits, associated with AI and other advanced analytic methods.

The Cross Jurisdiction Model Replication (CJMR) project sought to understand the degree to which a risk prediction model built from population-level and anonymized birth records in one state could be used to differentiate the risk of foster care placement in other jurisdictions.

Explore the HPOG National Evaluation Implementation Study Report which describes the variety of programs, program components, implementation strategies, the context in which programs operate, and program participants’ characteristics, experiences, and engagement.

Healthy marriage and relationship education (HMRE) programs for youth provide youth education on relationships through classroom-based curricula. Commonly used curricula cover topics such as knowing when you are ready for a relationship, understanding the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships, avoiding teen dating violence, communicating effectively, and managing conflict. Some but not all curricula provide information on decision making about sexual activity and ways to avoid teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.

This webinar highlighted promising practices and contextual and organizational factors related to using linked administrative data to understand the incidence of and risk and protective factors associated with child maltreatment.